Conquer Europe from the West

Chapter 9 The Schlieffen Plan

McIver immediately withdrew his hand that was about to grab Ryan, turned around and grabbed Lieutenant Brinkman who was still standing there, and began to move towards the first floor with another person.

Wolf and others outside received the order quickly, but did not come in immediately.

Because there was another person lying in ambush in a building dozens of meters away, they needed to call that friendly force back before they could continue their action.

Wolfe was very nimble and swift. He immediately emptied all the bullets in his hand and pinned the Farlan man two hundred meters away to the ground, making him unable to move.

The captain of a small team also took advantage of this opportunity to blow his whistle as hard as he could, and finally called back the sentry who was hiding in the distance.

As soon as the few people got together, they immediately raised their machine guns, picked up three rifles and two Farlane men's belts from the ground, and then entered the command post.

Ryan had just regained his vision. Standing on the stairs, he shouted at the men who were carrying machine guns into the hallway, "What machine guns are you carrying? They're gone!"

"Do you really think you can walk in the tunnel carrying a machine gun?"

When he said this, the captain of the first squad and Wolfe blushed, and they immediately threw the machine gun and the remaining half bag of bulk bullets to the ground.

"McWeir, what's going on?" Ryan turned and asked the person at the end of the corridor.

"Found it!" The young sergeant came back immediately. He used his rifle as a crowbar to pry open a thick wooden board. There was a tunnel underneath that was just big enough for two people to pass through.

"What are you waiting for?"

Ryan pushed Brinkman, who was still standing there, and said, "Get in, quickly!"

"what?"

The girl was obviously stunned, but fortunately Ryan pushed her and she reacted immediately.

Without any nonsense, the others followed her and quickly squeezed into the tunnel.

in the corridor.

Ryan watched everyone go into the tunnel, and he looked through the window at the Farlan soldiers outside for the last time.

Wolfe's suppressive fire forced them to enter the surrounding bunkers. Even though the people had already evacuated, they were still unable to move forward immediately due to the visual impact of the pillar of light shooting up into the sky.

Seeing this, Ryan took off his grenade from his belt, tied the drawstring to the finger of a Farlan corpse, and stuffed the grenade itself into the belt of another Farlan.

He dragged the two bodies to the entrance of the underground passage and stacked them on top of each other.

After finishing all this, Ryan responded to the voice of McIver who had already gone deep underground and chased after them.

The underground passage is actually quite spacious.

Although there was no light, the flashlights carried by the soldiers were enough to move around.

Ryan confirmed the direction of the tunnel in the system. This tunnel is a secret passage leading directly to a river bank on the south side of the camp.

It is about three kilometers long, which is a bit too long for a tunnel.

But the good thing is that there are corners and many forks in the tunnel, so it would be difficult for the Farlans to catch up with them even if they entered the tunnel.

a few minutes ago.

One hundred kilometers away. Under the Imperial Army's Fifth War Zone Command, the Defense Zone Staff.

Thick blue smoke almost completely submerged this conference room converted from a classroom. Countless figures were walking back and forth in it, and the beeping of wireless telegraph machines and the sound of hand-cranked telephones were incessant.

Dozens of staff officers, ranging from brigadier general to major, have not been able to have a proper drink of water since midnight last night.

As the key point facing the Farlan Republic, the Fifth War Zone is responsible for guarding the 400-kilometer-long border between the Empire and the Farlan Republic.

Farlan's sudden declaration of war and the long-planned aerial bombing operation directly cut off the connection between the rear headquarters and all garrison camps on the border.

The last time they received a radio signal was four hours ago, but the request for help did not provide even a little useful information.

Of course, they had thought about sending reconnaissance aircraft and soldiers who could ride motorcycles to the border to confirm the intelligence, but none of the troops sent out had been able to return with any intelligence so far.

"What the hell is going on on the front lines?! There's still no intelligence coming back from the Imperial Capital! How far have the Fallanian troops advanced?"

Brigadier General Brian, the highest-ranking soldier in the conference room, was now having a splitting headache from the endless chatter and quarrels around him.

He had not received any useful intelligence since the beginning of the five-hour battle. All the information he had received was requests for help from the front-line camp. Those rookies who had never experienced war could not even send back the direction of the enemy's attack.

Fortunately, when his men were collecting intelligence, they discovered that the first unit to send the message was the camp located at the northernmost part of the war zone border. Otherwise, he would not even know the direction of the Farlans' attack.

But even after the news was confirmed, the camp located south of the front line still could not survive the first round of bombing by the Farlans.

Airplanes were a new thing, and the Imperial Army did not equip the various camps along the border with anti-aircraft guns for air defense.

In other words, currently all countries have not yet systematically equipped their armies with air defense weapons.

Suddenly, a quick phone call rang in the staff headquarters.

Brigadier General Brian suddenly jumped up from his chair. He strode directly to the side of the telephone and grabbed the signalman who was so frightened that he forgot to speak. "Where did you get the information? The imperial capital? Or the front line?"

"Report! It's the Imperial Capital!"

The signalman quickly reacted. He cried out in a tearful voice, "The Imperial Capital Headquarters has just officially approved the resolution to immediately dispatch the Central Army to the Sixth War Zone in the far north. This is a direct order from Field Marshal Schlieffen!"

"Damn it! I should have fucking known!"

As a brigadier general, Brian immediately understood what the rear meant.

Field Marshal Schlieffen is the current Reich Field Marshal and, more than a decade ago, led a defense plan called the Schlieffen Plan.

The message the signalman had just received was clearly that after Schlieffen confirmed the news of Farland's massive attack, he used his connections and power to force the troops to implement his Schlieffen Plan.

"We don't even know where the enemy's main force is! He's just going to move all his troops to the far north!"

Brian gritted his teeth, the expression on his face was indescribable.

and.

At this moment, in the distance, a red light shot up into the sky and attracted everyone's attention!

(End of this chapter)